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Pancras Station, London. Besides the Metropolis itself, the 

 cities and towns of Bedford, Northampton, Cambridge, Leices- 

 ter, Birmingham, Worcester, Cheltenham, Lincoln, Peterborough, 

 Nottingham, Derby, Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield, Leeds, 

 Bradford, and Skipton, send their inhabitants to Lakeland by 

 this Line. The traveller passes through some of the towns and 

 sees important manufactures carried on close by the train. 

 Sheffield and Leeds are perhaps the most remarkable examples. 

 Here are innumerable furnaces, with tongues of flame stretching 

 out greedily, one thinks, to set on fire the whole neighbourhood ; 

 there is a perfect forest of gigantic chimneys, — monuments of 

 manufacturing industry ; and there also are the factories them- 

 selves, some of which are of mighty proportions and, by their 

 beautiful architecture, suggest palaces rather than workshops. 

 Witness also, about Leeds, the wilderness of railway-carriages, 

 engines, and other vehicles, giving but faint idea of the enormous 

 traffic to and from this wonderful focus of lines. The train glides 

 steadily through, however, with huge mills and machine-works on 

 either hand. When the open country is again reached, here, by 

 the very side of the railway, we see quarried the beautiful free- 

 stone of the region, which, besides supplying the demands of the 

 locality, is conveyed hundreds of miles to form the important fea- 

 tures of our best buildings. Now the railway runs in a fertile 

 valley, and a fair view is obtained of the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. 

 Higher up, on the slope, are the estates, homes, and mansions 

 of the wealthy of the neighbourhood, — such a panorama of the 

 kind as we have seen from no other railway. At Keighley we 

 are within three and a-half miles of Haworth, where dwelt the 

 three Brontes in the rectory of their father, and between here 

 and our destination the famous and most interesting Cave-dis- 

 trict of Ingleborough is passed, which has been very graphically 

 described by Mr. Payn in his * Leaves from Lakeland.' Carn- 

 forth, with its large iron-works, is soon reached by our express 

 train ; then Morecambe Bay, which the railway crosses by some 

 marvellous engineering works, before reaching Grange, a thriv- 

 ing, and the traveller will say, as he views it from the carriage- 

 window, attractive spot. Indeed, we may say, in passing, that 



